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SUGAR MAPLES.

One of the very finest deciduous-leaved trees of North

America is the tall Sugar Maple. It can truly be called

the noblest of all the Maples.

NO BETTER VARIETY CAN BE USED FOR STREET,
PARK, OR LAWN PLANTING,

as its growth is rapid and straight, its form symmetrical,
and it does not have, the objectionable density of foliage.
possessed by the Norway Maple.

For this reason it is well adapted for planting near build-
ings, as it does not obstruct light or air, and the grass
will grow up to its very trunk. It is deep-rooted, and
the wood is not brittle; hence, it is not easily damaged
by storms. The Sugar Maple will thrive in almost
all localities, except where the ground is damp or
boggy. No tree has more gorgeous autumn coloring,
as it varies in all shades of yellow, orange and scarlet
until the leaves finally fall.

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WILLIAM WARNER HARPER.

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EDITORIAL.

LIMATIC conditions do not demand that Fall Arbor Days should be designated as early for Tennessee as for Pennsylvania. November 20th was the date fixed in the former State, and we copy the following letter from the President of the Board of Education to the Park Commission, showing that Chattanooga's school authorities. appreciate the importance of instilling a love for trees in the youth under their charge:

"The depredation of the trees and shrubs of our city is largely due to children.

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In order to instill into the minds of the rising

of FOREST LEAVES as an advertising medium. Rates will be fur- generation a love and veneration for trees, the

nished on application.

The Pennsylvania Forestry Association,

FOUNDED IN JUNE, 1886,

Board of Education has determined to celebrate Arbor Day, November 20th, by having the eighth grade of each grammar school and the high school classes plant a tree with appropriate ceremonies

Labors to disseminate information in regard to the necessity and on the grounds of each school house in the city.

methods of forest culture and preservation, and to secure the enactment and enforcement of proper forest protective laws, both State and National.

Annual membership fee, Two dollars.
Life membership, Twenty-five dollars.

Neither the membership nor the work of this Association is intended to be limited to the State of Pennsylvania. Persons desiring to become members should send their names to A. B. Weimer, Chairman Membership Committee, 512 Walnut Street, Phila.

President, John Birkinbine.

Vice-Presidents, Wm. S. Harvey, James C. Haydon, Albert Lewis, Richard Wood.

General Secretary, Dr. Joseph T. Rothrock.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. John P. Lundy.
Recording Secretary, F. L. Bitler.

Treasurer, Charles E. Pancoast.

Council at-Large, Mrs. Brinton Coxe, Dr. Alfred L. Elwyn, Charles Hewett.

Finance, W. S. Harvey, Chairman; William L. Elkins, Dr. Henry M. Fisher, W. W. Frazier, Charles E. Pancoast, and J. Rodman Paul. Membership, Albert B. Weimer, Chairman; Mrs. George F Baer, Edwin Swift Balch. Hon. Lucien W. Doty, Charles W. Freedley, Dr. J. T. Rothrock, W. W. Scranton, Dr. Samuel Wolfe, and Hon. S. P. Wolverton.

Law, Hon. W. N. Ashman, Chairman; Henry Budd, Charles Hewett, and John A. Siner,

Publication, John Birkinbine, Chairman; F. L. Bitler, Alfred Paschall, and Harrison Souder.

Work, Mrs. Brinton Coxe, Chairman; Mrs. George T. Heston, Miss E. L. Lundy, Mrs. John P. Lundy, William S. Kirk, and Abraham S. Schropp.

County Organization, Samuel Marshall, Chairman: Eugene Ellicott, James C. Haydon, Dr. J. Newton Hunsberger, and Richard Wood. Depan C

ASSOCIATION, 1012 WALNUT ST., P.ADELPHIA.

This will require eight trees. We ask your commission to kindly furnish these trees for this purpose. By granting this request you will be doing a service not only to the children themselves, but to the trees and shrubs of our city."

It is well that the growing generation should have instilled into it an appreciation of the value of trees and of forests, for the wealth of timber in the Southern States has encouraged improvidence most pronounced.

We have seen areas covered with fine timber growth where the trees have been girdled to encourage quick destruction. It is not unusual to see branches chopped from chestnut trees, and even the tree itself felled to facilitate gathering a single crop of nuts. This is more than improvident, it is vandalism, which can only be checked. by vigorous legal action, backed up by strong public sentiment.

J. B.

Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania

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Forestry Association.

THE Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association was held at the room of the Association in Philadelphia on Monday, December 14th, at 3 P.M., President John Birkinbine in the chair.

The reading of the minutes of the last annual meeting was dispensed with, and the reports of Council, Treasurer and General Secretary, which will be found in full in this issue, were read.

An appeal for the preservation of the Calaveras Big Trees of California from the Outdoor Art League of America was read. The following resolution was presented and adopted:

"WHEREAS, The Outdoor Art League of California is prosecuting a well directed endeavor to preserve the Calaveras Big Trees of California through Congressional action at the coming session of Congress; and

"Whereas, It is the sense of this Association that the unique and world-renowned Big Trees of California should be protected and preserved for all posterity: Therefore, be it

"Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Forestry As sociation approves of the efforts being made by the Outdoor Art League of California to preserve the said trees, and that it is the sense of this Association that the Senators and Representatives from the State of Pennsylvania, in the National Congress, should lend their full and hearty co-operation in an endeavor to have passed, at the coming session, such legislation as will secure for all time the preservation of the Big Trees.

"Resolved, Further, That a copy of this Resolution be forwarded to the Senators and all the Representatives in Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, requesting their earnest co-operation in the above."

Mr. Charles Potts presented the report of the Nominating Committee, and Messrs. Samuel Marshall and Chas. S. Welles were appointed tellers of election.

While the ballots were being collected, Mr. Andrew Wright Crawford, Secretary of the City Parks' Association, sketched the growth of the park systems of Boston, Cleveland, Washington, Buffalo, etc., outlining the system which it was desired to secure in Philadelphia and vicinity. Some of the parks which are included in this system, such as Sherwood Forest, Cobb's Creek, Wister's Woods, Indian Creek, etc., contained fine woods, while the parkways would offer opportunity for planting trees. He closed with the request that the Pennsylvania Forestry Association join seven other organizations in the publication of a report

in regard to this movement, and also co-operate by naming three or more representatives. It was moved and carried that the matter be referred to Council, with power to act.

At the June meeting of the Council it was recommended that the annual dues of members be increased to two dollars and life membership to twenty-five dollars. After discussion, it was moved and carried that recommendation of Council be adopted and the By-laws be amended so as to read, that any person approved by Council may become "an annual member, by paying to the Treasurer of the Association the sum of two dollars for the dues of that year," etc., and "a life member, by paying to the Treasurer of the Association the sum of twenty-five dollars, together with all arrears of dues, if already an annual member."

The tellers made their report, stating that the following officers had been unanimously elected for the coming year.

President, John Birkinbine.

Vice Presidents, Wm. S. Harvey,
James C. Haydon,
Albert Lewis,
Richard Wood.

General Secretary, Dr. Joseph T. Rothrock.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. John P. Lundy.
Recording Secretary, F. L. Bitler.
Treasurer, Charles E. Pancoast.

COUNCIL.

At Large, Mrs. Brinton Coxe,
Dr. Alfred L. Elwyn,
Charles Hewett.

Adams County, C. E. Stahle.
Allegheny County, Wm. A. Baldwin,

Hon. Geo. W. Guthrie,

F. J. Hearne,

George M. Lehman,
Henry Phipps,

Wm. Wade.

Armstrong County, R. M. Moore.
Beaver County, J. S. Duss.
Berks County, Mrs. George Brooke,
J. H. Sternbergh.
Blair County, Harvey Linton.
Bradford County, C. S. Maurice.
Bucks County, Mrs. Geo. T. Heston,
Alfred Paschall,

Dr. Howard Pursell.
Butler County, Wm. Campbell, Jr.
Cambria County, Hartley C. Wolle.
Cameron County, Charles F. Barclay.
Carbon County, M. S. Kemmerer.
Centre County, Prof. Wm. A. Buckhout.
Chester County, Henry T. Coates,
Alfred S. Haines,
Wm. S. Kirk,
Samuel Marshall.

Clarion County, Jos. M. Fox.
Clearfield County, John E. DuBois.
Clinton County, Wm. P. Mitchell.
Columbia County, John R. Townsend.
Crawford County, George Frank Brown.

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Abraham S. Schropp. Northumberland County, G. R. Van Alen. Perry County, Mrs. John Wister.

Philadelphia County, Hon. W. N. Ashman,

Henry Budd,
Henry Howson,
J. Dundas Lippincott,
J. Rodman Paul,
Albert B. Weimer,
Dr. W. P. Wilson.

Pike County, Arthur M. Adams.
Potter County, Arthur B. Mann.
Schuylkill County, Wm. L. Sheafer,

Heber S. Thompson.
Somerset County, H. D. Moore, M.D.
Sullivan County, Hon. B. W. Jennings.
Susquehanna County, Edgar A. Turrell.
Tioga County, W. Burton Foote.

Union County, Andrew Albright Leiser.
Venango County, James Denton Hancock.
Warren County, Hon. H. H. Cumings.
Washington County, Wm. Parkison Warne.
Wayne County, Alonzo T. Searle.
Westmoreland County, Hon. Lucien W. Doty.
Wyoming County, James W. Piatt.
York County, Dr. I. C. Gable.

The election was followed by an informal forestry discussion. President John Birkinbine called attention to a letter from Mr. C. K. Sober con

cerning the necessity of proper protection of timber land from forest fires. Dr. J. T. Rothrock stated that complaint had been made that some County Commissioners did not pay constables for their services in preventing forest fires; that the Commissioner of Forestry would aid the latter to maintain their rights; and would also institute proceedings against constables who failed to perform their duty in fighting fires.

General Louis Wagner said that the Girard Es tate had sued Schuylkill County for failing to pay constables for putting out forest fires, and also on request gave a synopsis of the work done by the Girard Estate in reforesting denuded areas. He stated that the Estate had 14,000 acres of land, most of which was unfit for farming, and on this cut-over land the late Alexander Biddle advocated the planting of trees, many thousands being set out, at first in scattered patches, but later in solid blocks. There had been a satisfactory growth, but he was inclined to believe it most profitable to let the sprouts of the native. trees come up, thin out the underbrush, giving proper care. The woodlands had been damaged by fires, but with the aid of the law and fire-lanes these had been minimized. The Girard Water Company (a subordinate corporation) had taken some land containing springs by right of eminent domain, and to protect the water and the trees had completed a stonewall about the property. It was found that the forest fires burned up to this wall and then died out. Eternal vigilance was necessary to protect the forests, but it was a satisfactory investment. He also advocated interesting owners of small woodlots in forestry as one means of popularizing it. On the Budinot Estate belonging to the Philadelphia City Trusts there is some fine timber adjoining lands purchased by the State for Forest Reservations, where admirable work had been done in preventing forest fires, and it was encouraging to know that since the Pennsylvania Forestry Association and the Forestry Department had been organized, there was much less loss from fires, in some years none being reported. Dr. Rothrock said that on the Budinot tract it had been found that the best plan was to cut fire-lanes six feet wide and fifty feet apart, throwing the brush in and burning it. At Mont Alto he expected this year to find great aid in fighting fires by means of kegs of water carried on the backs of mules, which would be spread by sprays to assist back-firing.

Mr Howard A. Chase said he was impressed by the thought advanced in the General Secretary's report, as to the desirability of the State furnishing nursery forest trees, and hoped the next Legislature would pass a law to this effect. Dr. Roth.

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